Thomas is a doctor of special education at the University of Zambia where he lectures on part-time in the School of Education, department of Educational Psychology, Sociology and Special Education. He is also an Inclusive Education Consultant with Celim, Africa Call and Association Pope John 23, which are Italian Non-governmental Organizations working in Zambia.

Having lost his sight at the age of ten years in 1981, he moved on with education and trained as a secondary school teacher. Because of his excellent performance during his undergraduate at the University of Zambia, the university senate employed him as a lecturer in the department mentioned above. He did his master’s degree in Special Education at the same university of Zambia. And, in 2013, he pursued a postgraduate diploma in Curriculum Design and Development sponsored by UNESCO at the Tanzanian Institute for Education. In 2014, he was sponsored by the Open Society Foundation to study Sociology of Globalization at the University of Bilgi in Turkey. Sponsored by the same Open Society Foundation, later he went to the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom to study International Human Rights Law as his second masters.

He has been involved in major consultancy work from as far back as 2003 when he worked as a disability research assistant in the baseline survey for the living conditions of persons with disabilities in Zambia. Since then, he has presided over major researches including consultancies from Leonard Cheshire UK office, the Zambia National Educational Coalition (ZANEC), Zambia Open Community Schools, Open Society Initiative in Southern Africa and so many others as the CV will show.

Because of his training in curriculum issues, He has been involved in curriculum development and review.

Because of his disability, he is a disability activist and he has worked with so many civil society organizations and the disabled people’s organizations within Zambia and Africa in general. He has also been appointed by government to sit on national boards like the Teaching Council of Zambia, the Examination Council of Zambia and many others.

Apart from working with the University of Zambia, he works with four other universities (Universities of Rabaut in the Netherlands, Baptist university of Cameroon and the University of Sierra Leone) with the support from Lillian Fonds to undertake research on disability related issues. He has therefore been working with Leonard Cheshire Zambia to train teachers on policy matters for persons with disabilities and inclusive education.

He has great and vast knowledge in the general education system and inclusive education in Zambia and at international level. Therefore, he has done most of the researches in inclusive education in Zambia, disability rights, albinism, disability improvement and development and good governance.

In 2021, he took time off from the University of Zambia and decided to contest for member of parliament in Chasefu: his home area, becoming the first blind man to contest for a constituency seat in the Zambian multiparty democracy. He lost the constituency. Since he is not working as a full time lecturer at the University of Zambia, he is doing a lot of consultancy work in disability related issues.